RK (aka Ramkumar) is so sincere these days. But the fellow can’t keep his masti under control when studying in a group, so he goes to the library like a good boy. I tend to think of it as the place where people go to punish themselves when they do a bad deed. Being in an adventurous mood, I decided to check out the phenomenon.
I stepped inside and thought I had gone deaf. As my prof used to say, ‘pin-drop silence’ (used to irritate me quite a bit…if the pin dropped, it would still make a teeeny-weeny bit of sound. Then why call it silence??). Anyway, I went to the clerk to explain that I didn’t have an id card, but wanted a test drive before buying the car. She was more concerned though about the amount of noise I was making.
I saw RK and waved enthusiastically. The guy beside looked at me like I was showing my ‘election finger’. I tiptoed my way to the chair stack and tried pulling one out, but the damned thing was stuck. I put my foot on the stack and pulled out the top one with some force, which sent the stack back with a mighty screech. Almost everyone stopped reading and looked up. I curved my mouth into what seemed like a friendly half-smile and said ‘Sorry’, which echoed on the walls and came on as a boom. The girls in front rolled their eyes. Think they were wondering what the bumbling idiot was doing amongst their species…
I had to carry the chair to sit beside RK, but the path was covered with people of all shapes and sizes, and their books with the 500+ pages. I exhaled, lifted the chair over my head like I would carry Ganpati Bappa and began my journey towards the divine light (sunrays from the open window). The mass of people again turned up their heads and stared. I think they were speechless as they hadn’t encountered anyone making a sound over half a decibel! I kept my focus on RK, who was half amused, half embarrassed, slowly walked upto him and sat down…phew, that was fun!
I opened my book (thinnest paper solution I could find, had less than 100 pages)…omg!! I could feel my concentration level suddenly rise up. After about 10 mins, I looked to my left at RK’s giant sized reference book, then told him I was bored. After pestering him for half an hour, we finally called it a day. I got up and the chair screeched. Before those exasperated eyes hit me again, we ran out. Dang! One more day like this and am through…
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22/05/2009 at 12:20 pm Permalink
आपण आपल्या Projects मध्ये भारतीय भाषांसाठी सोय कधी केली आहे का? तुमचे इंग्रजी लेखन आवडते. वाचन मग ते लायब्रेरीत बसून असो का घरात इण्टरनेट वर असो, एकाग्रते शिवाय शक्य नाही. आणि एकाग्रता आवडी शिवाय वाढत नाही. तुम्हाला यश नक्की लाभेल. तुम्ही हिन्दी भाषेचे अध्ययन करावे. भारतात Market हिन्दी भाषेतील Applications ला आहे. Myspace ने हिन्दी पोर्टल सुरू केले आहे. शिवाय Transliteration मु्ळे तुमचे लिखाण एकाच वेळी गुजराती, बंगाली, मलयालम व इतर भारतीय भाषे मधे sorry, लिपींमधे प्रदर्शित करता येते. असो.
22/05/2009 at 7:45 pm Permalink
धन्यवाद…
Yep…केली आहे…अणि हिंदी व मराठी साठी वर्डप्रेस मध्ये ही भरपूर प्लगिन्स आहेत…
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